Oh, I didn't check KDE-on-win for a long time. And anyway I feel at home in the GTK2 environments.

I solved the problem of dual booting by leaving Windows for good. Part is I wouldn't ever reboot anyway (who wants to, and lose everything that's going on?), part is I was fed up with Windows 7 for petty reasons. Disk/memory intensive for my own taste, but foremost after ten years of using Windows 98 then XP with basically the same GUI, there were more than one thing that pissed me off. I had a hilariously ugly desktop at some point, with my attempts to make it more traditional.

I made my life worse, had some ugly quirky desktops (ugly gnome2/mate layout, random combinations of mate/nautilus 3.x/xtce/lxde iwith duplicate tools and a broken icon there and the wrong file manager coming up.. CLI-only debian squeeze NAS that was semi fucked up.. lol!
But in the end, Mint 16 Mate and Mint 17 Mate saved the day. I can install the latter on any buddy's laptop or desktop in 20 minutes, install or tweak just one thing or three and it's done!

Now, what were we talking about..
Yeah I will probably try KDE 5.1 (if it is to have such a versioning scheme) down the road. For psychological reason (let it double-extra mature) and because I now see a philosophical similarity with Mate. Provide a GUI that's still about the same a decade later, but really maintained and with ever so slight improvements here and there that I can't pinpoint but the thing feels ever more polished.
I'm waiting on LXQt 0.8, too (more than KDE). When it's out I'll jump on it to try it first time. High hopes there. I think the main dev has good taste.

The French say "la France", vast majority of countries are called "the Country" with few exceptions, actually small insignificant states, city-states or remote overseas possessions : e.g. San Marin, Singapore, Macao, Trinidad and Tobago, Vanuatu, Palau, many other such examples and then for some reason Israel.

I lost all respect for the Putin regime when it was caught doing inflammatory warmongering propaganda that Cheney, Rumsfeld etc. would be proud of (fake footage of syrian rebels firing chemical warheads).
Reports and TV footage of the burning building with nazis blocking the entrances seemed real enough to me though. Yes, I don't know if they're nazi enough to be called nazis and they only form a large minority. Maybe they just like their nice logo, Hitler portraits and roaming the streets to beat up people.

If everyone did the same to all things..
When you pack and move, tear down your house with a jackhammer, sledgehammer etc.
When you divorce, murder your wife.
When your Windows laptop is slow because of malware and lack of RAM, pour gasoline on it and set it on fire.
Broke a windshield, take your car to a junkyard and have it compressed to a very small cube.
After you had dinner, empty your fridge and flush everything you didn't eat in the toilet.

A dirt-cheap, little used phone more secure than Android? that feels like a good idea.

What encryption is used? If there's no major flaw in the algorithm that can simplify the breaking by many orders of magnitude, and if compared to what we can break now the thing is 2^64 or 2^128 times harder to break (or some measure worse than that), good luck with that, even in 20 years.

Why is there that talk that it's all Putin fault.. The whole thing started with the US backing national-socialists to make a putsch. Ukrainian nazis did atrocious crimes like torching buildings with the people inside and preventing them from escaping. So by your rhetoric, it's like Barack Obama and Victoria Nuland personnally suffocated and burnt to death dozens of people while grinning and laughing.

That said I'm not saying that to downplay Putin's cynicism and duplicity or what atrocity the russian Ukrainians have made themselves guilty of.

Wow, thanks for answering my rant and especially the bit about hardware modding an nvidia card. How silly.
On another note, H264 streaming of a game from Windows VM to display on the linux desktop would be a way to do the reverse. So you keep the linux desktop. The encoding is done real time by a dedicated unit on the GPU.. and that feature is especially supported on Geforce 600 and 700 series!, i.e. the generation past 400 series. So that's why it's disabled (though there's some level fo consumer support for this if you use a separate computer)

As a side rant, years ago I thought the port of KDE to Windows meant we'd be able to run the KDE desktop on Windows but no it was more about the infrastructure and libs to run apps. There may be some hacky way to barely run KDE desktop components (run an X11 server, do some ugly hacks..) but I suppose it would be a total waste of time.

A French would possibly have got it right but still written in that wrong and confusing way. We don't capitalize month names. Now I know why it's done in English.

Whatever. If you give me a Windows 8 I will use the file manager to navigate to \Program Files so I can launch apps, a cmd.exe window to type shutdown -s -t 0 when I'm done, and a win+r box to run devmgmt.msc to check hardware/drivers or control ncpa.cpl if I need to check the network connection.

Furthermore we also refer to other stars as "suns" when we feel like it or the context makes it useful.

You can get consumer hardware with 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes that run right into the CPU, wouldn't that be enough PCIe bandwith?

Ever heard of a multi-user machine? By definition it's both a desktop and a server. Or right-clicked on a folder in Windows 98 to share it? Your Windows 98 desktop is now a server.

We have the freedom to do whatever the hell we want. Had a network with an Ubuntu 8.04 machine that was extremely powerful (four cores, four gigabyte of RAM, a multi-hundred-gigabyte HDD) : it acted as an LTSP server for thin clients (one, two or three), served storage with Samba, proxy and wad even the local DHCP and DNS for that network segment. Single point of failure, but it was always on and worked, so who gives a shit.

Poor OS/2.. if only IBM had made it incompatible with Windows 3.1 applications, maybe it would have succeeded.
As for Amiga, I disheartenedly learned not long ago that a XOR patent killed the AmigaCD 32 which is totally despicable. It would have become the first successful CD-based console, probably. A couple years headstart on the Playstation. Commodore/Amiga could have transformed into a console manufacturer, selling tens of millions units.. Junk their computer division : the DOS PC had won already back then.

I've been thinking that my next computer ugprade (which is otherwise not really needed) will allow me IOMMU/Vt-d and VGA passthrough, so maybe I can get back to Windows for gaming. But having two graphics card, and a KVM or two sets of keyboard/mouse etc. and a way to deal with the monitor(s) would be a pain so why not just use the Windows desktop and use linux via ssh, X11, RDP etc.

If debian 8 can be used without systemd if you don't use a desktop, it could be done that way! lol.
Anyway there's a udev fork and debian/KfreeBSD, debian/Hurd will go on, certainly with low priority but there's a possiblity that a debian/linux/without-systemd is unofficially made building on the work for those?

Now what about Ubuntu, which is what I actually use.. (because it's just debian with more packages and more stuff just working, and linux Mint is awesome). Well we're fucked. Mint 17 is an LTS with versions based on Ubuntu 14.10, 15.04 skipped, perhaps that's good enough but what happens in 2016/2017.. I don't fucking know! I guess I'll use systemd anyway. Or go back to Windows 98, install an old Cygwin and browse the web with Internet Explorer 5.